Talk:Guilderland, New York

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Butterfly name[edit]

It also appears someone has already fixed this issue!--72.226.77.21 16:03, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the article on the Karner Blue butterfly it is stated that the name comes from a former name for Guilderland...I know Karner is a hamlet in the town of Colonie, so is this information correct or was it named after the hamlet, or just was the hamlet named for the butterfly? Does anyone have correct info on this? Camelbinky 22:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed[edit]

"The town's name officially means "Moneyland" in Dutch.^{[citation needed]}"

I removed the template, because how can you possibly give a citation for this? Every Dutch person can tell you it's true, as well as English-Dutch dictionaries, but a "real" citation would be hard to find. -- Sander (talk) 14:12, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the meaning of 'money land' since the name clearly comes from the Dutch province of Gelderland, which is historically the Duchy of Guelders. This Duchy was named for the (now German, then Dutch-speaking) city of Geldern. On that page you can find (unreferenced) that legend gave its name to that city - a lord killed a dragon and while dying it gasped thrice "Gelre!"... I can't find any etymological evidence that Gelre/Gielra/Gellere/Gellero/Gellera/Gelera/Gelder/Geldern/Gelderen (all occurrences of the city name I found) has something to do with the Dutch word for 'money'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.177.247.202 (talk) 16:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~The term "Tory" was a fighting word in that civil war, and should not be used without qualification in an article that is supposed to be above POVs. I changed the term to "Loyalist". The Loyalists were as American as their rebel neighbors, just with a different political take. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karpaten1 (talk • contribs) 03:40, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Is there a field/spot to add demonyms in town articles? I think we are called Guilderlanders. It's the only thing I've seen anyone use in the 40 years I've lived here, but I don't have a citation. I have no idea what Altamont's is, either. Nacoran (talk) 23:51, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]